Former Rep. Bill Archer, a Texas Republican who spent three terms chairing the powerful House Ways and Means Committee in the 1990s, died Saturday at his farm in Stanley, Va. He was 98.
Archer, who came to Congress in 1971, was elected to fill former President George H. W. Bush’s House seat. He got his start in local politics before his election to the Texas legislature, where he served two terms, starting as a Democrat before switching parties and joining the GOP.
